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‘ss HAR Peay 8 Oe Be Po us: 
Plate 26. Fig. 1. 
Character of the Species, , | . | Scabiofa Tranfylvanica, 
The lower Leaves ate harp’d ; but the upper ones fimply pinnatifid : the 
feparate Flowers are fhort, and ftand low. 
| ss | Fig. 1. abe. 
Tus is an Annual, native of Tranfylvania ; a tall and very handfome Plant, flowering 
through all the middle part of Summer; and very worthy a place in gardens. The Stalk 
is firm, erect, thick jointed, and above a yard high. The Leaves are of a faint, but de= 
licate green ; and area little hairy. ‘The Flowers are of a very fine rofe colour. They 
ftand much more regularly on the top of the Plant, than in many of the other kinds ; 
and this adds a great deal to their beauty. | ot } 
¢s SNOWY SCAB LOS 
Plate 26, “Fig. 2, 
Charadter of the Species, = | | Scabiofa Leucanthema, 
The Leaves are irregular] y pinnatiid: The Flowers are globular and 
compact, i edie 
ee | : Fig. 2. a 
Tus is a Perennial, native of the South of France; a Plant of very fingular afpect, 
flowering in July and Auguft. The Stalk is brown, and woody at the bafe; the upper 
part is pale and tender ; and its Branches fall wildly, not with that regularity we fee in | 
many of the Scabious’s. ‘The Leaves are of a whitith green ; and have a glofly furface. 
The Flowers are {now white. od nee 
Ir is fingular that this Plant, evidently the fame {pecies, is found at the Cape of Good 
Hope, where its Stalk is much more woody, and its Leaves lofe much of their divifion. — 
_ Thefe variations, though they feem great, yet are reduced to nothing, when we ex- 
_ amine into their caufes. The Cape Plants have often woody Stems, becaufe the force 
of winter does not deftroy them ; and even with us, a high or low ground, give more 
or lefs divifions to the Leaves. The firft is an article of confequence in the hiftory of 
Plants, becaufe unlefs underftood, many herbaceous Plants will be confounded with 
Shrubs; but the caufe is familiarized to us by good obfervation here. Laft winter be- 
ing a very mild one, many of the Mufk Scabioufes lived through it; and have now 
woody Stems. 
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